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Apple Pay No Sure Bet as Contactless Cards Dominate
Apple Pay No Sure Bet as Contactless Cards Dominate
August 18, 2022  |  Payment Methods

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Stage Set for Retail Slugfest as Kohl’s Plans Aggressive Discounting
Stage Set for Retail Slugfest as Kohl’s Plans Aggressive Discounting
August 18, 2022  |  Retail

With a middle-income customer base and broad exposure to apparel, Kohl’s says it has been “disproportionately impacted” by inflation and dampened consumer spending and will...

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Investor Ryan Cohen Selling 10% Stake in Bed Bath & Beyond
Investor Ryan Cohen Selling 10% Stake in Bed Bath & Beyond
August 18, 2022  |  Retail

GameStop chairman Ryan Cohen plans to sell his 10% stake in retailer Bed Bath & Beyond, the activist investor said this week in an SEC...

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Embedded Solutions Tackle SMBs’ Trade Finance Challenges
Embedded Solutions Tackle SMBs’ Trade Finance Challenges
August 18, 2022  |  B2B Payments

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Ripple, Brazil’s Travelex Bank Add Crypto-Based X-Border Payments
Ripple, Brazil’s Travelex Bank Add Crypto-Based X-Border Payments
August 18, 2022  |  Cryptocurrency

Aiming to use cryptocurrency to enable cheaper, faster cross-border payments, enterprise blockchain and crypto solution provider Ripple has teamed up with Travelex Bank to launch...

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BJ’s Wholesale Touts Member Value as Record Sales Defy Retail Slump
BJ’s Wholesale Touts Member Value as Record Sales Defy Retail Slump
August 18, 2022  |  Earnings

To paraphrase a well-known tagline, membership has its benefits. As BJ’s Wholesale Club reported second quarter 2022 earnings on Thursday (Aug. 18), value creation for...

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Bath & Body Works Cuts 130 Jobs Amid Slight Sales Drop
Bath & Body Works Cuts 130 Jobs Amid Slight Sales Drop
August 18, 2022  |  Retail

Bath & Body Works will cut 130 jobs — mostly leadership roles — in what the personal care and fragrance brand called an effort to...

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Gravity Payments Boss Who Cut His Pay for Employees Resigns
Gravity Payments Boss Who Cut His Pay for Employees Resigns
August 18, 2022  |  Personnel

A payments company CEO and founder who made international headlines for reducing his own salary to boost every employee to a minimum annual of $70,000...

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Report: Walmart May Boost Use of Influencers to Promote Products
Report: Walmart May Boost Use of Influencers to Promote Products
August 18, 2022  |  Retail

Walmart may be looking at increasing its use of social media influencers to promote its own products and those of its third-party sellers, having filed...

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